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Comments on: Aardman picks Observer for net monitoring

Another El Reg advertisement 

Posted Saturday 7th July 2007 09:31 GMT

Hmm... Wow...

My company just rolled out Nod32 to 250 users. Do you want an official statement?

Advertorial 

Posted Saturday 7th July 2007 10:24 GMT

Did Open Reality pay for this advert? Or was the paper thin disguise as a 'press release' sufficient?

Whilst I like Aardman Animation's work, this has little to do with it and is hardly a major deployment or an early adoption of a key new technology, a more honest version might read;

"Aardman Animation has bought some software to monitor the not particularly large or fast network between its four sites in Bristol. It might buy some hardware too.

Aardman's new head of IT chose the software because had used it before."

Earth shattering news....

Howard Arnault-Ham? 

Posted Saturday 7th July 2007 14:11 GMT

I thought their top technician was called Gromit.

I thought that.... 

Posted Monday 9th July 2007 06:57 GMT

.....Wallace and Gromit built all their own hardware? Mind you those NASA trousers would be handy getting up a comms riser - as long as BOFH hasn't got the PFY jammed up there again

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